wargamer123
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Heh, WW1 history I actually saw a guy not too long ago, a Brit on the History Channel or Discovery... Still alive from WW1 mentioned the Deadliness of British Artillery How many WW1 vets do you think are still alive? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_veterans_of_World_War_I If you follow this link, you'll see how rare they are now... Of the millions they are mostly gone. Suprisingly enough a lot of Brits, and living in Australia, probably due to the nice weather? Or the Tea? As I recall reinforcements called for ammo, rifles, shells, Artillery, Tobacco and most importantly Tea? An antioxidant 1 German I think is all i see on the List... That's how thorough that war was, I don't believe I see a Russian at all... and you can probably attribute the long life of the Italians to their low stress lifestyle I had no clue over the past 15-20 years just how thorough that age is going into the darkness Hats off for 1 second to the Fighting men of the Original Death March I think Noone ever imagined the scale of WW1 could ever touch that, they envisioned some sort of relived Napoleon war.... which was actually not that much less bloody, just the tools of the trade were that much more evolved P.S. what a lot of Euros and other people forget the foundation of WW1 fighting originated in the Trenches of the American Civil War. Another very frightful experience 600k lost in a nation of what 30 or so million
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